sensemaking – Valcri https://valcri.org VALCRI is a European Union project Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:34:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 White Paper WP-2017-009: Analytical Provenance for Criminal Intelligence Analysis https://euprojectvalcri.org/publications/white-paper-analytical-provenance-for-criminal-intelligence-analysis/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:55:44 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1518 ...]]> In criminal intelligence analysis to complement the information entailed and to enhance the transparency of the operations, it demands logs of the individual processing activities within an automated processing system. Management and tracing of such security sensitive analytical information flow originated from tightly coupled visualizations into visual analytic system for criminal intelligence that triggers huge amount of analytical information on a single click, involves design and development challenges. To lead to a believable story by using scientific methods, reasoning for getting explicit knowledge of series of events, sequences and time surrounding interrelationships with available relevant information by using human perception, cognition, reasoning with database operations and computational methods, an analytic visual judgmental support is obvious for criminal intelligence. Our research outlines the requirements and development challenges of such system as well as proposes a generic way of capturing different complex visual analytical states and processes known as analytic provenance. The proposed technique has been tested into a large heterogeneous event-driven visual analytic modular analyst’s user interface (AUI) of the project VALCRI (Visual Analytics for Sensemaking in Criminal Intelligence) and evaluated by the police intelligence analysts through it’s visual state capturing and retracing interfaces. We have conducted several prototype evaluation sessions with the groups of end-users (police intelligence analysts) and found very positive feedback. Our approach provides a generic support for visual judgmental process into a large complex event-driven AUI system for criminal intelligence analysis.

Keywords

Analytic Provenance, Visual Analytics, Transparency, Visualization Design, Sensemaking.

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]]> EISIC Conference 2015 https://euprojectvalcri.org/events/eisic-conference-2015/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:10:41 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1236 ...]]> VALCRI provided sponsorship to the 5th European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference EISIC 2015 in Manchester, UK (https://www.eisic.eu/). This was part of the project’s dissemination activities.

Through VALCRI, Dr Joe Kielman, Science Advisor, DHS, and member of the project External Advisory Board provided a keynote address to the conference. Members of the Consortium presented a variety of papers

  • Supporting the Externalisation of Thinking in Criminal Intelligence Analysis, by Peter J. Passmore, Simon Attfield, Neesha Kodagoda, Celeste Groenewald, B.L. William Wong;
  • The Role Of Cognitive Biases In Criminal Intelligence Analysis And Approaches For Their Mitigation, by Eva-C. Hillemann, Alexander Nussbaumer, Dietrich Albert; and
  • Benefits and Pitfalls of Predictive Policing, by Eva Schlehahn, Patrick Aichroth, Sebastian Mann, Rudolf Schreiner, Ulrich Lang, Ifan D. H. Shepherd and B.L. William Wong;

and won the Best Poster Award for the poster “Guidelines for sense-making in Intelligence Analysis” by Margit Pohl, Johanna Haider, Chris Pallaris and B.L. William Wong.

VALCRI will be involved in organising the “Decision-making and Interaction” track in next year’s conference. EISIC 2016 will be held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

]]> SchemaLine: timeline visualization for sensemaking https://euprojectvalcri.org/publications/schemaline-timeline-visualization-for-sensemaking/ Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:43:01 +0000 https://valcri.demo.steellondon.com/?p=1187 ...]]> P. H. Nguyen, K. Xu, R. Walker, B. L. W. Wong, P. H. Nguyen, K. Xu, R. Walker, and B. L. W. Wong, “SchemaLine: timeline visualization for sensemaking,” presented at the 18th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV),18th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV), 2014, pp. 225–233.

]]> Sensemaking and Cognitive Bias Mitigation in Visual Analytics https://euprojectvalcri.org/publications/my-second-publication/ Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:08:13 +0000 https://localhost:8080/?p=921 ...]]> Pohl, M.; Winter, L.-C.; Pallaris, C.; Attfield, S.; Wong, B.L.W., “Sensemaking and Cognitive Bias Mitigation in Visual Analytics,” in Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC), 2014 IEEE Joint , vol., no., pp.323-323, 24-26 Sept. 2014

Abstract:

The purpose of the VALCRI project is to develop a new system prototype for information exploitation by intelligence analysts working in law enforcement agencies. Information visualisation will be a core element of the prototype. Such systems have to be designed to support the sensemaking and reasoning processes of the analysts. One of the goals of the project is, therefore, to get a more thorough understanding of sensemaking processes and to develop a set of recommendations for the design of intelligence analysis systems to help analysts in their work.

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